LA PERRA
European Short Film Candidates 2023
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14m
Being a daughter, being a mother, becoming a woman.
Directed by: Carla Melo Gampert
Written by: Carla Melo Gampert
Produced by: Julie Billy, Capucine Mahé, Franco Lolli, Naomi Denamur
Editing: Juan Sebastián Quebrada
Animation: Carla Melo Gampert, Andrea Muñoz Álvarez
Sound: Juanma López, Daniel Giraldo
Original Title: LA PERRA
Film Production Countries: France, Colombia
Website: http://shortcuts.pro/nos-films/la-perra/
Social Media:
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Statement of the Director/s
When I was eleven years old, on the day my parents separated, my mother gave me a dog, which I kept with me until her death a few years ago. My mother probably told herself that having a pet would help me cope with the family separation.
At the same time, my body started to change. I 'developed'. My first lovers, my first nights out, my first erotic emotions. Followed by the fear, the harassment, the guilt.
Despite a seemingly uncomplicated relationship with her own sexuality, my mother seemed to view my transformation into a teenager with concern. Soon I sensed in her eyes a condemnation of my budding desire as something reprehensible, of my body as monstrous. Most of my friends experienced the same thing. What we all felt, really, was a deep guilt about being women: the guilt that condemns us to be cute little girls, then devoted mothers, or, failing that, to be seen as bitches. It was this sense of guilt, more than anything, that I wanted to explore in LA PERRA.
Biography of the Director/s
Carla Melo Gampert (1993, Bogotá) is a visual artist who graduated from the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá and from the Film program at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires. Her graduate thesis, the animated short film POR AHORA UN CUENTO, had its international premiere at the Annecy Festival before travelling to Dok Leipzig, FicValdivia, Curta Kinoforum and São Paulo, among others. In addition to her work as a director, she curates audiovisual exhibitions such as Animación Porosa (Cinemateca de Bogotá, 2022). In LA PERRA, her first professional animated short, she continues her exploration about body and femininity.
Filmography of the Director/s
2018 - SOMETIMES TWO HERONS
Production Company:
June Films
Julie Billy
Phone: +33674020389
Website: http://junefilms.fr/
World Sales:
Shortcuts
Elise Notseck
Website: http://shortcuts.pro/
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